No Vow


No vow, no sacrifice required.

Just keep pouring

the ghee of attention

into the flame of your body.

It thrills the stars.

They tremble, tethered to nuclei

in your gold brown human husk.

Ancestral worlds snuffed out

billions of years ago,

yet the light of their dying

only now arises as your dance.

But what is "ago"?

A stranger's word on a pilgrim's lips.

The illusion of distances.

Dispel it

with the ceremony of breathing.

Offer your flesh to your flesh

and wake up the sun.

Rouse the planet by risking to be

what you already are.

Her little purple nipples bud

on plum branches.

She greens her heather lashes

in mirrors of snow melt.

Her voice is the silence of flowers.

Isn't it true, the moment

this rose spoke

you heard nothing else?

Because you are awake,

everything happens.

At midnight She tears off her veils

of darkness, story by story,

until She has no name.

A humming in her womb begins.

Now it is dawn and you can see

all creatures purely illumined
by their own Being, each one brave
and fiery in its form, the crystal-veined,

fragrant-petaled, finned and coiled,

feathered, furry, the four-legged leapers,

the two-leggeds bent with their burden of mind,

all breathed by one Breath, each at Om
in its own sweet dust.

 
Photo by Neil Dicki

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